Azure Monitor vs Mackerel
Azure Monitor
azure.microsoft.comMackerel
mackerel.ioSide by side
| Figure | Azure Monitor | Mackerel |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 3 |
| Spec score · Cloud Monitoring | 8.3 (#7) | 7.8 (#11) |
| Spec score · Infrastructure Monitoring | 8.4 (#8) | 7.9 (#15) |
| Founded | 1975 | 2001 |
| Headquarters | Redmond, Washington, USA | Kyoto, Japan |
Plans
Mackerel
- FreeFree
- StandardPrice not published
- Standard (micro host)Priced on request
In their own words
Azure Monitor
Azure Monitor has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
Mackerel
Mackerel is a cloud-based SaaS service for monitoring servers and team-managed infrastructure. Installing its agent starts monitoring, after which hosts can be grouped into services and roles. It visualizes host metrics and user-defined service measures, including response time, sales and page views. Monitoring features include combining metrics, tracking predicted values and machine-learning anomaly detection. Cloud integrations cover Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud; a container agent treats Amazon ECS tasks and Kubernetes pods as hosts. Users can extend monitoring with open-source plugins, APIs and the mkr command-line tool. Customer Reliability Engineers can offer technical guidance on implementation and use, while standard-plan technical support is email-only. The free plan has five standard and micro hosts total, 500 metrics, one-day retention, 10 monitoring rules, one dashboard and up to 5M trace spans. A two-week trial includes Standard-plan functions and a 100M-span allowance. Standard host usage costs 2,180 yen, tax included, per host month.